Cybersecurity

State-Sponsored Hackers Exploit Two Cisco Zero-Day Vulnerabilities for Espionage

Apr 25, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Zero-Day A new malware campaign leveraged two zero-day flaws in Cisco networking gear to deliver custom malware and facilitate covert data collection on target environments. Cisco Talos, which dubbed the activity ArcaneDoor, attributing it as the handiwork of a previously undocumented sophisticated state-sponsored actor it tracks under the name UAT4356 (aka […]

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Cisco warns of a command injection escalation flaw in its IMC

Cisco warns of a command injection escalation flaw in its IMC. PoC publicly available Pierluigi Paganini April 18, 2024 Cisco has addressed a high-severity vulnerability in its Integrated Management Controller (IMC) for which publicly available exploit code exists. Cisco has addressed a high-severity Integrated Management Controller (IMC) vulnerability and is aware of a public exploit […]

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Threat actors leverage document publishing sites for ongoing credential and session token theft

Cisco Talos Incident Response (Talos IR) has observed the ongoing use of legitimate digital document publishing (DDP) sites for phishing, credential theft and session token theft during recent incident response and threat intelligence engagements. Hosting phishing lures on DDP sites increases the likelihood of a successful phishing attack, since these sites often have a favorable […]

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Cisco addressed severe flaws in its Secure Client

Cisco addressed severe flaws in its Secure Client Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2024 Cisco addressed two high-severity vulnerabilities in Secure Client that could lead to code execution and unauthorized remote access VPN sessions. Cisco released security patches to address two high-severity vulnerabilities in Secure Client respectively tracked as CVE-2024-20337 and CVE-2024-20338. Cisco Secure Client is […]

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Cisco Secure Client Carriage Return Line Feed Injection Vulnerability

Cisco has released free software updates that address the vulnerability described in this advisory. Customers with service contracts that entitle them to regular software updates should obtain security fixes through their usual update channels. Customers may only install and expect support for software versions and feature sets for which they have purchased a license. By […]

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Businesses banning or limiting use of GenAI over privacy risks – Help Net Security

Privacy is much more than a regulatory compliance matter. Findings from a new Cisco study highlight the growing Privacy concerns with GenAI, trust challenges facing organizations over their use of AI, and the attractive returns from privacy investment. “Organizations see GenAI as a fundamentally different technology with novel challenges to consider,” said Dev Stahlkopf, Cisco […]

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Volt Typhoon Ramps Up Malicious Activity Against Critical Infrastructure

China-backed cyber espionage group Volt Typhoon is systematically targeting legacy Cisco devices in a sophisticated and stealthy campaign to grow its attack infrastructure. In many instances, the threat actor, known for targeting critical infrastructure, is exploiting a couple of vulnerabilities from 2019 in routers, to break into target devices and take control of them. Targeting […]